Catrena Norris Carter, executive director of the Selma to Montgomery 50th Commemoration Foundation, announced the schedule on Monday.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Sept. 30 it would stop sending driver's license examiners to satellite offices in 31 counties.

Those include eight of the 10 counties with the state's highest percentage of African American population -- Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Wilcox, Bullock, Perry and Hale -- plus three other Black Belt counties, Butler, Choctaw and Pickens.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, said people with limited means of transportation will lose an equal opportunity to vote because of the additional time and travel needed to obtain a license, the most commonly used form of voter ID.

Sewell has called for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the decision close the offices.

ALEA blamed the closings on a cut in the department's budget.

ALEA said the closed offices accounted for less than 5 percent of the agency's driver's license transactions.

In the budget approved last month, the Legislature instructed state agencies to reduce administrative costs before cutting direct services.

Carter said the Rev. Al Sharpton's organization suggested the caravan. She said Sharpton will not be part of the caravan but is planning to come to a rally in Montgomery during the next few weeks if the ALEA decision is not rescinded.

Other groups participating include the Save Ourselves Movement for Democracy and Justice, Selma's Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the Alabama New South Coalition, Carter said.

The caravan schedule:

THURSDAY:

Union Springs, 9 to 9:30 a.m.

Tuskegee, 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Hayneville, 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Greeneville, 2 to 2:30 p.m.

Camden, 3:45 to 4:15 p.m.

FRIDAY:

Carrollton, 9 to 9:30 a.m.

Livingston, 10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Eutaw, 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Greensboro, 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

Marion, 3 to 3:30 p.m.

Selma, 4:15 to 4:45 p.m.

Updated at 7:58 a.m. to say that Al Sharpton won't be in Alabama for the caravan.